Search Results: Titles starting with E from Blacks Bookshop

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 179 pgs. Blue boards w/yellow letters stamped in spine. Author photo by Carter Blackmar. Jacket photo by Joe Albanese. DJ #12082 designed by Abby Kagan. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I cherish my unmarried state. I'm female, twice divorced, no kids and no close family ties. I'm perfectly content to do what I do . . . It was two days after Christmas when Kinsey Millhone received the bank slip showing a credit for five thousand dollars. The account number was correct but Kinsey hadn't made the deposit. Then came the phone call and suddenly everything became clear. The frame-up was working and Kinsey was trapped . . . ‘Grafton on form yet again. Source: Publisher.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co, 1948. Hardcover_cloth. Used - VeryGood. 5.75"x8.25" 500 pgs. Red cloth boards. Captain's wheel blind stamped on front w/author and title inside circle. Gold title frame on spine w/red letters. Spine straight, binding tight, pages toned w/soiling to paste downs. 2.5" water stain to top of gutter til page 30. Not x-library. Old price notations on ffep. No DJ. As America battles the British and struggles against its own internal dissension, the lives of three young doctors, intimately entwined by the historical events around them, are detailed in all their glory and, occasionally, their shame. While the cunning Dr. Asa Peabody schemes his way to a fortune under General Benedict Arnold, and Dr. Lucius Devoe strains under the demands of a central army hospital, the dashing Dr. Peter Burnham becomes a ship's surgeon on a privateer and witnesses some of the most tumultuous moments of the war. On the terror-ridden Danish island of St. Jan, Burnham finds a passionate love… Read More

New York: Hurst & Company, 1890. Hardcover_cloth. Collectible - VeryGood. 5.13"x7.5". 172 pgs. 1 leaf advertisements. Sage green cloth boards. Decorative design in black on front and spine. Lowell on spine insided silver metallic block. Hurst & Company published between 1880 -1915 so book would have been published between that time. Spine straight, binding tight, pages toned, no marks. 2.25" crack in hinge inside front cover exposing muslin. Soiling to cover. Dust stained edges. Bumps to corners. Crack in cloth along spine on front cover .25". Edge wear, rubs along spine, fraying to crown and heel of spine. TRC of page 7 missing. James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their… Read More

NY: Mariner, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. Physical Info: 1.43" H x 9.27" L x 6.28" W (1.6 lbs) 560 pages. First Printing. Features: Bibliography , Illustrated , Index , Maps , Price on Product , Table of Contents. Secure ship w/track #. "A magisterial dual biography of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, revealing in groundbreaking new detail the two most legendary and consequential American Indian leaders, who triumphed at the Battle of Little Big Horn and led Sioux resistance in the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars."--From book jacket.

NY: Putnam, 1998. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 193 pages. Black boards w/gold foil letters. DJ #19738 designed & art by Honi Werner. Author photo by Dwight Carter. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. GIFT QUALITY Secure ship w/track #. Popular, well-respected radio talk-show host Mandy Magic seems to have it all and then some. Born Starmanda Jackson and raised in the projects of Newark, Magic has literally talked her way out of poverty. But she is stalked by a past that won't let her go. When a threatening note and repeated acts of vandalism make her fear for her safety and cast doubt on the recent, apparently robbery-related death of her stylist, Magic enlists the aid of Newark P. I. Tamara Hayle. But as Tamara soon discovers, Mandy is a woman of secrets and half-truths with more shady characters in her past and present than she cares to admit. There's Rufus Greene, a former pimp with a mysterious and… Read More

Milwaukee, WI: G. Schirmer, Inc, 1979. Spiralbound. Near Fine. 9"x12". 31 numb. pgs. See second photo for contents list.

Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007. Paperback. Fine. 6.5"x9.25" 127 pgs. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (w/price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. In 1865, as the Civil War was drawing to a close, plans were underway in Boston for a railroad construction project to begin in Greenup County, Kentucky. Eventually the Eastern Kentucky Railway Company would extend its main track through two more counties, Carter and Lawrence. Spanning just 36 miles of main track from Riverton to Webbville, the Eastern Kentucky Railway became a lifeline for the economic and social activities of the people of northeastern Kentucky. Even though the original plan of extending the railway much farther south and bridging the Ohio River to the north never came about, the railway struggled along for more than 65 years. Many people who grew up along the line passed their experiences to younger generations; some, like Jesse Stuart, wrote about them. This volume will show… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1983. Fifth Edition or later. Leather bound. Near Fine-Collectible.

Consolidated Music Publishers, 1956. Paperback. Near Fine. 9"x12" 160 pgs. 124 songs. Spine straight binding tight pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped. Some pencil notes. Secure ship w/track #. See 2nd and 3rd photo for song list.

NY: Putnam, 2000. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 407 pgs. Mustard boards. Brown spine w/copper letters. Book design by Marysarah Quinn. DJ Thomas Tafuri. Front dj photo Davis Freeman. Author photo John Earle. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Lucas Davenport investigates an unsettling series of murders in this classic novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series—and this one is John Sandford "at the top of his game" (New York Post)... In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined—one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared...Source: Publisher.

United States: Barnes & Noble Books, 1999. hardcover. Very good +/very good.

NY: Little, Brown & Co, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth spine. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. FIRST PRINTING w/DJ wrapped in mylar. Q-ff 24cm 405 numbered pages. Teal boards w/LB blind-stamped on front. Black cloth spine w/silver letters. DJ design by Allison J. Warner. Author photo by Wendy Werris. Jacket photo c Amanda Friedman. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped (price), unmarked. Minimal shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/track #. More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here? In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked the case but couldn't crack it, and the twenty-two-year-old was never found. Now, more than a decade later, with the… Read More

NY: Delacorte, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Near Fine-Collectible/Near Fine. 6.4"x9.5" 324 pgs. First printing. Black boards w/gilt signature on front. Black cardstock spine w/gold foil letters. DJ design by Jorge Martinez and Andrew M. Newman. Jacket photos c David Savill and H.F. Davis. Author photo c Grigitte Lacombe. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minor shelf wear to DJ. Secure ship w/tracking #. Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal...and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening. By the glimmering waters of Lake Geneva, the quiet Jewish… Read More

Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library, 1976. Hardcover_boards. Near Fine. 5.75"x8.5" 325 pgs. Green boards w/pretty gilt border design on front and spine. Speckled paste downs. Red silk ribbon marker. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ, PON on ffep. Secure ship w/track #. Contains: Don't Look Now.--The Apple Tree.--The Pool.--The blue lenses.--Kiss Me Again, Stranger.--The Chamois.--Not After Midnight.--The old man.--The Birds.

Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine-Collectible. 5.13"x7.88" 100 pages Green cloth w/gilt letters to front. Blindstamped letters to spine. Frontispiece (portrait) 20 cm. Foreword by Elihu Jasper Sutherland Sunset Hill January 15, 1928. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. X-library w/graphics, no DJ. Edge wear w/fraying to heel and crown. 70 poems. World Cat listed 33 editions in libraries. Not found on internet platforms. Signed (not verified) by author gift inscription: "From Frank Monroe Beverly to Louis W. Chappell 1929

Grand Haven, MI: Brilliance Audio, 2017. MP3CD. New. 1 MP3 CD Audio. 13 hours: 43 minutes. Unabridged. Performed by Susan Ericksen. Cover design by Ervin Serrano; Cover photo: City@Just One Film/Getty Images. After a party in New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas rides home with her billionaire husband, Roarke, happy to be done with cocktails and small talk. After another party, not far away, a woman retires to her bedroom with her husband—and walks into a brutal nightmare. Their paths are about to collide... When the young woman—dazed, naked, and bloody—wanders in front of their car, Roarke slams on the brakes just in time, and Eve, still in glittering gown and heels, springs into action. It's been a long night for the tired homicide cop, and it's far from over. Daphne Strazza is rushed to the ER, but it's too late for Dr. Anthony Strazza. A brilliant orthopedic surgeon, he now lies dead amid the wreckage of his obsessively organized town house, his three safes opened and emptied. Daphne would be a… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover_paper spine. Very Good/VeryGood. 6.5"X9.5". 369 pages. X-library w/graphics. 1st printing. Persimmon board. Yellow spine w/red metallic letters. Designed by Meryl Sussman Levavi. Jacket design by Lisa Fyfe. Author photo by Peter Simon. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Unclippe DJ. The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a frantic e-mail from Marissa Brand Okari—a woman he loved years ago—and decides to risk everything to respond to her plea for help. Marissa's husband, Bobby Okari, is the charismatic leader of a freedom movement in the volatile west African nation of Luandia, which is being torn apart by the world's… Read More

NY: Random House, 1969. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_cloth. Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.5"x8.5" 266 indexed pages. Denim cover w/outline of city embossed on front mirrored on spine w/yellow gold letters. DJ designed by Hermann Strohbach. Author photo by Herb Snitzer. Archival tape applied to back of DJ. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & PON stamped. Secure ship w/track #. The thesis of this book is that cities are the primary drivers of economic development. Her main argument is that explosive economic growth derives from urban import replacement. Import replacement occurs when a city begins to locally produce goods that it formerly imported, e.g., Tokyo bicycle factories replacing Tokyo bicycle importers in the 1800s. Jacobs claims that import replacement builds up local infrastructure, skills, and production. Jacobs also claims that the increased production is subsequently exported to other cities, giving those other cities a new opportunity to… Read More

Cincinnati, OH: The Willis Music Company, 1909. Loose Sheet Music. Collectible - Acceptable. 11"x13.5" Edited and fingered by Franz Hoffmann. 4 leafs of music. Advertisements on backside. Many tears and chips along edges. Old scotch tape ghosts. Shipped with board in clear plastic. T. Waltz - Piano.

NY: Delacorte Press, 1982. Hardcover_vinyl spine. Used - Near Fine/VeryGood. 5.86"x8.5"x1.13". 407 pages. BCE. Light brown boards with dark brown spine. Gold letters on spine. Author's Note. Prologue. Author photo by Eric Wagman Studio inside back DJ. Jacket design by Andrew M. Newman. Jacket illustration by Craig Nelson. DJ # 5160. Chips and tears along top edge of DJ. Slight slant to spine. Binding tight, pages clean and bright. No markings. No clips. Not Ex-library. "She was a girl as beautiful and innocent as her family's lush Caribbean plantation—until she discovered the darkness of desire and became a woman. Expelled from paradise, Teresa Francis would be swept into marriage and the opulence of New York only to be drawn back to her island, where secrets can ignite explosions of political upheaval and clandestine love." Goodreads.